Word: borrowings
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...council also approved the purchase of a new $2,500 sound system—which student groups on campus will be allowed to borrow for their events—and allocated funding for the continuation of last semester’s “Loker Nights,” which will feature student bands and other events designed to bring social gatherings to Loker Commons...
...borrow from Alexis de Tocqueville, I am encouraging us to act according to our self-interest well understood. We should strive to take care of each other and be respectful of our neighbors because the basic norms of human decency demand at least that much of us—and because, by clearing the way for permanently-extended party hours, responsible behavior will enable us to enjoy a better social life and stronger community in the long...
...without her help. "He knows what they are going through," says a source who chats with Clinton often. "He has helped them think through their own strengths and weaknesses." But none of the Democrats can do that without first coming to grips with Clinton's, deciding what to borrow and what to bury...
...hype aside, Manhattan can't out-jungle the jungle--but it's much more exciting than Burnett's take on the dining business in The Restaurant. The challenges, which make up the bulk of the episodes, are cleverly designed and guarantee dramatic sparks. Above all, it was smart to borrow the provocative battle-of-the-sexes motif from Survivor: Amazon, even if the casting questions Burnett and Trump's claim that the contestants were chosen (from 215,000 applicants) mainly for brains. The women range from hottest-woman-in-your-office hot to supermodel hot (and flash more...
...American culture, as in American politics, it was possible to assemble a case for two entirely different visions of the mainstream: one libertine, irreverent and p.c., the other traditional, devout and PG. It's tempting to borrow the electoral blue-state/red-state template and say there are two mainstreams, equal and opposite--but that beggars the definition of mainstream, no? The year 2003, we've heard, was when the swing voter became irrelevant. It could be that our pop culture too no longer has that swing...